In April, China brokered the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Middle East's thousand-year-old enemies, a miracle in diplomatic history.
The Saudi foreign minister and the Iranian foreign minister met in Beijing and smiled, and the Chinese foreign minister stood in the middle, and the three sides shook hands tightly.
Enough to go down in the annals of world history.
This photo has inspired and rejoiced countless peace-loving people around the world.
Therefore, we strike while the iron is hot, hoping that this demonstration effect in the Middle East can affect Europe.
From May 15, Ambassador Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, will visit Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany and Russia to communicate with all parties on a political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.
Seeing this news, who is most anxious?
Americans, of course.
Especially the boss of foreign affairs, Secretary of State Blinken, he really has no face on his face.
Because of the news of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran in advance, he did not receive any wind at all, and what is more fatal is that the foreign ministers of the two countries still shook hands in Beijing, China.
It can be said that how beautiful China is, how humiliated he is for Americans.
In order to save face, Blinken pondered that I also had to do something to show the world our diplomatic soft power in the United States.
Yes, diplomacy is divided into two kinds of strength, one is hard power, this is easy to understand, without a fight to surrender to the enemy, retreat from the enemy thousands of miles away.
And soft power, to put it bluntly, is to promote peace, that is, to persuade.
Originally, the two of them were about to fight, and you ran to the front of the station: let me be fair...
As a result, these two people sold you this face, and immediately smiled on their faces, shook hands and made peace, and said that they would be good friends in the future.
This is diplomatic soft power.
In practice, soft power is often a better indicator of a country's influence than hard power.
After all, you want to let both sides sell you this face, don't you?
Therefore, Blinken sees that China's diplomatic soft power is so hard, it can make Iran and Saudi Arabia shake hands and make peace, then, we in the United States cannot show weakness.
Wouldn't we just shake hands and make peace? What's so hard about this!
So, Brink began to ponder, which two are more suitable for mediation?
Israel and Palestine?
Forget it, the difficulty is too great, are those Jewish bigwigs willing to say both.
It just so happens that a civil war has broken out in Sudan, should those two warlords stop the fire?
But that's not very realistic, because there are many voices in the outside world now saying that this Sudanese civil war is actually a fire set by the United States behind.
In addition, Sudan is also a member of the Arab League, and now there is the Arab League helping the peace talks, assuming that the United States can really make peace in Sudan, then won't the credit also be given to the Arab League by half?
Even, some people will say: You were originally a firemaker, now you put out the fire, what kind of skill is this?
So, Sultan, you're out of drama.
Finally, Blinken took a magnifying glass and searched the world map and finally found two countries:
Located in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan and Armenia, both former Soviet republics.
Since the end of the 80s, these two countries have been in constant conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Nagorno-Karabakh, abbreviated: Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The Nagorno-Karabakh region, like other conflict-ridden places in the world, is a place where history, ethnicity, religion, and political contradictions are intertwined.
A brief introduction.
Historically, the Nagorno-Karabakh region was an integral part of Greater Armenia, and as early as the Urartu era from 9 BC to 6 BC, this region was called Alsak and was part of Greater Armenia.
To borrow a phrase that we often say: the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been an integral part of Armenia since ancient times.
But now, if you look at the map, you can see that the Nagorno-Karabakh region is located on the territory of Azerbaijan.
Can this not be a war, you say?
Ethnically, there are about 180,000 people in Nagorno-Karabakh, 80% of whom are ethnic Armenians.
Therefore, they always hoped to join Armenia, but Azerbaijan refused to allow ah, and in 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh directly established a republic, of course, all parties did not recognize him.
But this move provoked crazy retaliation from Azerbaijan.
From the end of February 1988, as a result of the growing hatred of Armenia, Azerbaijan's elaborate acts of mass violence and massacres of Armenians,
Occurs in the city of Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku and other Azerbaijani cities.
Religiously, Azerbaijanis are predominantly Shia Muslims.
The Armenians mainly believe in the Christian Armenian Apostolic Church.
Politically, after the color revolution, Armenia's side leaned towards the United States and the West.
And the Azerbaijani side is inclined to Russia.
Therefore, under the influence of historical, ethnic, religious, political and other factors, the Nagorno-Karabakh region is constantly conflicting, and it is difficult for the two countries to achieve true peace.
What's more, everyone can also see from the map that there is also a super-stirring stick Turkey.
So, Azerbaijan and Armenia want peace? That's just hard to get to the sky.
However, Blinken did not believe in this evil, he thought it was easy.
First, the last large-scale conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan took place in September 2020, with the signing of a ceasefire agreement in November of the same year.
Although there were a bit of skirmishes and frictions later, it didn't hurt.
Secondly, Blinken said: My appeal is very simple, I don't ask you to really be peaceful, I just hope that you can come and do me a favor, shake hands in front of me, and then take a picture.
Or that sentence, propaganda, to effect rather than result.
As long as the effect is in place, you can take it out for publicity and brag about it.
So, on May 1, at Blinken's invitation, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan arrived in Virginia for trilateral talks with Blinken.
After the meeting, Blinken quickly called reporters.
Then he took the foreign ministers of the two countries, held their hands tightly, and came to a group photo.
According to US media reports, the foreign ministers of the two countries held a breakthrough in their visit to the United States, and the relations between the two countries made a historic breakthrough, and they smiled very happily.
But actually.
But their faces are full of writing:
"Okay, no, how did this photo take so long?"
"yes, who wants to shake his hand? Go back and dare to quickly wash your hands with 84 disinfectant! ”
But whether you laugh or not.
After all, this hand is held, right?
Although it was shook through the intermediate medium of Blinken, it was also held.
The three appear in the same photo, in the same frame.
That's enough.
So the American media took the photo to the outside to hype, and Blinken showed it off, saying that the foreign ministers of the two countries were about to reach a new peace agreement.
In the future, there will be no more war between the two countries in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Peace will be the main theme of the future.
The words are revealed with smug and pride.
"See? Not only you and China, but we and the United States can also promote peace as long as we work hard. ”
I guess Blinken almost hung this photo on his bedside table and glanced at it every night before going to bed in recognition of his "great achievements."
This Armenia and Azerbaijan are really a little too faceless.
You said you guys, so bad to make Blinken happy for a few more days.
Outcome.
On May 11, the two countries fought again.
In the early morning of the same day, Azerbaijani troops shelled the positions of Armenian troops in the direction of the village of Sotek, Ggarkunik province, wounding three Armenian servicemen. Gegarkunik Province is located in the eastern border region of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said that it was the Armenian army that began firing mortar shells at the Azerbaijani positions on the morning of the 11th, and the Azerbaijani armed forces took the necessary counterattack measures.
Well, this beating can't hit people in the face.
Blinken said in his heart, didn't you two just take a picture and shake hands, it's only been a few days, why did you fight again?
So what's the point of me working so hard to get you to come to the United States to take pictures?
Co-authorship, I spent so much money to take a photo, and the validity period is only ten days, which is also too bullying, right?
But I guess ah, the foreign ministers of the two countries will say:
"Old Bu, this is also to give you face, I didn't cut him at the scene, otherwise I promised to shave his beard."
"What, shave my beard, you have the ability to try it?" I give you a square face to play cards, believe it or not? ”
Speaking of which, I remembered a story from the Spring and Autumn period.
There is a beautiful woman surnamed Shi in Yue Country, because her family lives on the west bank of Ruoye Creek, so the villagers call her Xi Shi.
One day, because of his heartache, Xi Shi covered his chest with his hands when he walked and frowned. But because Xi Shi is gorgeous and unique, no matter what gesture can not hide her beauty, this gesture of frowning in the heart looks like a different kind of beauty, which is very endearing.
And it just so happens that there is also a girl surnamed Shi on the east bank of Ruoye Creek, because she lives on the east bank, so everyone calls her Dong Shi, but she is very ugly, so she often imitates the clothes, postures and movements of beautiful girls.
On this day, she happened to see Xi Shi covering her chest, so, the next day, she also learned Xi Shi frowning, covering her chest, walking a few steps, resting, pretending to be weak and uncontrollable, walking around the village.
As soon as everyone saw Dong Shi frowning and covering his chest, they thought that she was a sheep's horn offender, and everyone was so frightened that they quickly closed the door and hid away with their wives and children.
Since then, Dongshi has been reduced to a laughing stock.
The story of Dong Shi Xiaoying has also been handed down.
Dong Shi only knew that Xi Shi frowned beautifully, but he didn't know why frowning was beautiful, that was because Xi Shi was originally beautiful, and no matter what she did, it was beautiful.
And Dong Shi, who is already ugly, but still has to be pretentious, isn't this even more ugly? Ugly people do a lot of weirdness, and this is the truth.
Learning from others, this starting point is good, but to have a correct attitude, we must blindly imitate from our own reality, and it is very stupid to blindly imitate and apply rigid methods, not only will not receive good results, but will also be counterproductive, laughing generously.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the people of Ruoyexi saw the overwhelming city of Xi Shi and the stupidity and ugliness of Dong Shi.
Today, more than 2,000 years later, the story of the smelly country once again allows us to witness the influence of the United States.
Sure enough, no matter what, as long as the Americans intervene, it will inevitably be accompanied by war.
If there is a Nobel Prize for war, the Americans are absolutely the only one, and no one can compete with you.
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